The Boat People

✍ Scribed by Sharon Bala

• Book ID: 112047233
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 588 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385542302

✦ Synopsis

For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave,The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum.
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